EXCLUSIVE GOLF CLUBS.
CLASS DISTINCTIONS OPPOSED. WELLINGTON, Oct. 2. Allegations by Mr C. L. Carr of exclusiveness on the part of certain golf clubs were answered in the House of Representatives by the Minister of Internal Affairs (Hon. W. E. Parry). Mr Carr had asked the Minister to investigate the reported refusal of some clubs to allow working men to become members even if the latter could meet the fees. He suggested that either the concessions allowed to certain clubs or the membership restrictions should be removed. After detailing the various provisions in law by which rating and valuation concessions may be given to spocts bodies, Mr Parry said the concessions were applicable to all sports bodies and not only to golf clubs. Possibly the same considerations which Mr Carr had raised in regard to gob clubs would also apply in the case of other sports organisations. While the Government was not in possession of details of the rights to membership to all these bodies, continued the Minister, it was naturally not desirous of encouraging class distinctions either in sport or in any other communal activity.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 263, 5 October 1936, Page 12
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186EXCLUSIVE GOLF CLUBS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 263, 5 October 1936, Page 12
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